How to setup NSClient for Nagios Windows Monitoring

For Windows hosts, we use NSClient++ for easy, accurate and secure monitoring of critical services and processes running on the host.

If you elected for "Self-managed + Monitoring" or any of the server management plans, then this will have been set up at installation.If you are self-managed with, or without monitoring and need to set it up, this article is for you.

The first step is to download the latest, stable version of the NSClient. It can be downloaded here: